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META_SETBKCOLOR
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NAME</H1>
META_SETBKCOLOR
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NEAREST API CALL</H1>

<PRE>#include &lt;windows.h>

COLORREF SetBkColor
(
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HDC32 hdc,
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; COLORREF color
);</PRE>

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DESCRIPTION</H1>

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<TD>U16</TD>

<TD>Value</TD>
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<TD>0</TD>

<TD ROWSPAN="2">COLORREF</TD>
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<TD>1</TD>
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When the <a href="SetBkMode.html">BkMode</a> is set to OPAQUE, the color that SETBKCOLOR sets is the
color that will be used as the background color for
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the box that is the background to text.</LI>

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the color that shows through the transparent areas of hatched brushes and
styled (dashed) lines.</LI>

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and for the background color when converting bitmaps to monochrome and
vice versa, though i havent figured out if this last point has any revelence
to a metafile converter.</LI>
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